Rick Perry disavows 9-month-old book ‘Fed Up!’. (The Raw Story, 8/22/2011)
Excerpt: In the book, Perry blasted the expansion of the federal government and criticized programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. He attacked social welfare programs as "fraudulent systems designed to take in a lot of money at the front and pay out none in the end."
Perry also called Social Security "a crumbling monument to the failure of the New Deal," which was implemented "at the expense of respect for the Constitution."
But his communications director, Ray Sullivan, recently told the Wall Street Journal that the book is not meant to reflect the governor’s current views on Social Security, describing the book as "a look back, not a path forward." He added that the book was "not in any way as a 2012 campaign blueprint or manifesto."
"A look back, not a path forward"? OK, what about chapter 10?
And here's what Newt Gingrich has to say a foreward. Rick has done a great service by explaining how we got here and what we can do about it.
Or this from syndicated radio show host Mark Levin. Governor Perry explains that we can and will save America by taking necessary steps to restore the proper balance of power between federal and state government.
Sounds like a path forward to me.
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